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Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#carrying #events #every #extraordinary #flows

The future is made of the same stuff as the present. ↗

— Simone Weil

#made #present #same #stuff

Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that. ↗

— Joan Didion

#always #around #been #before #big

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#ended #hadn #house #i #piano

Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#behind #disappear #happens #interpreter #longer

I've played golf with three U.S presidents. ↗

— Lee Trevino

#i #played #presidents #three

Come little children I'll take thee away, into a land of Enchantment Come little children the time's come to play here in my garden of Shadows Follow sweet children I'll show thee the way through all the pain and the Sorrows Weep not poor childlen for life is this way murdering beauty and Passions Hush now dear children it must be this way to weary of life and Deceptions Rest now my children for soon we'll away into the calm and the Quiet Come little children I'll take thee away, into a land of Enchantment Come little children the time's come to play here in my garden of Shadows ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#poetry #poetry-quotes #thriller #beauty

A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#bed #come #happy #home #made

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#beautifully #because #expressed #find #i

If there is a supreme being, he's crazy. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#crazy #supreme #supreme being